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Journal of the Optical Society of America B

Quantum electrodynamics of an atom making two-photon transitions in an ideal cavity

Ravinder Rupchand Puri, R. Bullough

Published Oct 1, 1988• 185 citations
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Abstract

It is shown that a single atom making two-photon transitions in an ideal cavity (Q = ∞) in the presence of an initial coherent state field will, as expected, continue to show the collapses and revivals of atomic inversion and the intensity–intensity correlation of the field; however, these collapses and revivals are both compact and regular, in contrast to the one-photon case. This is because, although the several Rabi frequencies involved are incommensurate, for the two-photon case, unlike for the one-photon problem, they become commensurate in the limit of intense field. We derive analytic expressions for the atomic inversion and the intensity–intensity correlation in the case of direct, as well as homodyned, detection of the intracavity field. The effects of the Stark shift are discussed.

DOI
10.1364/josab.5.002021

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Solutions of the basic equations of a simplified model of the cavity quantum electrodynamics are presented under the condition that the single-photon Rabi frequency is much larger than the cavity decay rate. Such solutions are used to calculate the quantum-statistical properties of the field and atomic observables under a variety of initial conditions involving the states of the field and atom. Effects of increasing cavity damping and of the addition of thermal photons on collapse and revival phenomena are discussed. Phase-sensitive aspects of the cavity field are also treated. Quantum effects are shown to be most easily isolated by sending an atom initially prepared in a dressed state for such a state does not evolve further under the influence of a classical field. The appearance of squeezing in the cavity field is demonstrated. The squeezing is most prominent for a coherently prepared atom passing through an empty cavity. The quantum features of the complex dipole moment and their detectability are also discussed in detail.